the week's top stories on are the libyan government blames foreign forces for their latest setback which they say are giving the opposition a significant lead. the rebels have broken a stalemate and are gaining remains and while the push and pull to push forward is trying. and washington tries to distance itself from the libyan crisis but the country's long history of international interference leaves a war weary public fearing another lengthy conflict. painful economic cod see quarter of a million in march through london and protests elsewhere as hard pressed europeans

question an expensive libya campaign spending slashed at home. and in japan radiation rises in the sea near fukushima despite efforts to bring the plant under control following the earthquake tragedy over ten thousand are now in the city's dead with many more homeless or missing. it's eleven am in moscow you're watching r t no way with the latest and a look back at the week's top stories first stop libyan rebels are advancing west towards the capital tripoli after regaining control of a strategic oil town from progun taffy forces meanwhile nato ambassadors are due to meet later on sunday to discuss the transfer of the control of the mission in libya from the coalition parties publicly or is in the capital with more. in the china

which is one hundred sixty kilometers away from benghazi of course being the ripple stronghold and we know that the opposition fighters are back in the town and have taken over and they are going into march towards the town of ago which is another seventy kilometers to waste when we haven't as of yet received any confirmation that the fight is of actually taken over the town of brega overnight in the last twenty four hours. story at least five in libyan planes and two helicopters now as you can imagine the mood in the is on its immigration but we are hearing some concerns from some of the residents there they say because of the fighting over children and also that some of them are distrustful of the rebel fighters themselves there was also fighting in the city of misrata this is the closest city to the capital tripoli in terms of where the rebels and gadhafi soldiers are coming face to face an. hour drive from here and they we are actually hearing that the government has the upper hand and that they're reinforcements and they started

shelling the town coalition in strikes on there ostensibly to protect civilians but it took them more than a week for the rebels to actually overcome the might of gadhafi is on you so this does come from home aligning to the opposition fighters are on international involvement they have actually called to the international community to conduct more strikes they admit that they want a relatively limited defense if they came up against him and to w. so the question being asked is just how can they make good on the caves to march all the way to tripoli and it begs the question just how far will the western alliance go in terms of providing air cover and protecting the opposition fighters the government the entropy is actually accused the western community of taking sides in this fight to quote the government's photos and abraham said he said that this is immoral it's illegal and it is an action that was not authorized by the u.n. security council he says that the coalition forces say that they are here to protect

some. williams but actually they pushing the country to civil war nature today is expected to take command of the no fly zone they're also unleashing to discuss whether or not they will take control of the whole operation this is being called the no fly list and we're hearing from officials that they are likely to give a lot to those that we're hearing from the united states that they were just a few more sticks in the planning and after the control and command of the whole mission from the get hands of mates and members the sticking point in this is the point that needs and selves are focused on is just what kind of role the nato alliance and will be play in terms of protecting civilians on the ground if you have a scenario that gadhafi forces are out in the desert where there are no civilians and they taking a stand when they taking a stand there just what kind of boat will need to play in that particular scenario another scenario that's been put forward is actual rebels on the landing in advancement over towns that are firmly in the hands towns where there never was fighting before now this is clearly an offensive rb nature and i'm since going to

continue to provide power and coverage as they advanced waste words more and more to tripoli increasingly the feeling on the ground in the back you're going to have a stalemate because that was country is going to be divided and in most court to see whether you are a good guy he's a board or supporter most people actually do not welcome that kind of kind of it's an aria. the u.s. led coalition maintains colonel gadhafi himself is not a target and promises a quick and decisive campaign but international affairs analyst john locke won't think the allies are committed to regime change in libya and won't stop until they brink of death or down. i think they're gravely mistaken and i think that this escapade will end in catastrophic failure and my fear is that the european leaders and the americans who have pushed this attack on libya think that a quick bit of bombing will sort the matter out but in fact i think they will find

that it will last far longer than they have gambled for the british prime minister the french president the american administration these people who are so happy to let bombs fly on countries that almost at the drop of a hat they are determined to get the outcome they want which is the overthrow of colonel gadhafi of libya so it will make the task the disagreements and the the discordant voices that are now coming out of both within western states and also in the arab league these will indeed make it very difficult to continue the war but i'm afraid they won't let go now that they've started. while america american bombs rather pound libya brock obama says the u.s. should not and cannot intervene every time there's a crisis somewhere in the world even so every american president since ronald reagan who also bombed gadhafi has weighed in to at least one military conflict parties christine for the wind up the controversial trent. it's become an unspoken a dent into the job description. become president of the united states.

declare war my fellow americans my fellow citizens for president ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred six a familiar attack on a familiar enemy despite our repeated warnings gadhafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit of terror he counted on america to be passes he counted wrong turns out so did saddam hussein just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait for his successor president clinton the target was slobodan milosevic today our armed forces joined our nato allies and air strikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo president george w. bush said it was weapons of mass destruction that threaten the world and invaded iraq in what was supposed to be a quick and limited campaign on my orders coalition forces have begun striking

selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war most thought it would end there with president obama running on an anti-war platform he has spent most of his presidency trying to end the wars started by his predecessor until now the u.n. security council passed a strong resolution that demands and to the violence against citizens. it authorize the use of force in the timeline of recent history there have been some glaring similarities when it comes to the use of force by u.s. president none have been in response to a military attack or even threat of an attack on u.s. soil and none have ever been formally declared wars we had to protect thousands of innocent people in kosovo from a mounting military offensive we are determined to knock out saddam hussein's nuclear bomb potential we will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities so this

is not only our right it is our duty the definition of duty often changing the result. parallel thank you god bless you. god. thank you very much christine for r t. well russia house ruled out participating in the coalition operation in libya saying it's not producing the expected results prime minister putin agreed the protection of libyan civilians is paramount since be achieved at a cost to innocent lives. there's a civil war going on in libya the proposal of a no fly zone was aimed at preventing khadafi from firing at his opponents and so protect civilians such a decision applied to a sovereign state is a difficult one but the aim was well intentioned but what are we seeing now that it is drugs on the entire territory of the country how can it be aiming to protect civilians such means are choosing the civilian death toll actually rises. the u.s.

defense secretary was in moscow this week to try and muster a kremlin support over intervention in libya moscow abstained from voting on the u.n. resolution which led to the no fly zone enforcement robert gates a sword president misreads of that major operations in libya with scaled back within a few days it wasn't the only military in which missile defense in europe was discussed but little progress was made moscow wants a joint system to protect the continent but washington insists on a shield of its own which russia says is a threat to its own security. we continue to say across the situation in libya our correspondents on the ground are updating our twitter stream to stay in touch with what they're witnessing firsthand there there's also more on our facebook page and you to.

london streets were filled with more than a quarter of a million angry voices on saturday public sector workers staged britain's biggest political demonstration in years over the deal. spending cuts which are being rolled out there were hundreds of arrests as part of the rally turned violent the windows of the shops and banks were smashed and also paint the demonstrators oppose the government even billion pound spending cuts which they say will destroy essential services and jobs but ministers insist they are necessary to reduce the deficit the u.k.'s outpouring of anger follows a week or so intense protest in brussels as the e.u.

contemplated bellowing out cortical. reports. of more layoffs to pay cuts no retirement the message from angry demonstrators pushed back with water cannon and pepper sprayed by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels to slash spending this money was made. to be used for social security. to be used for health not drug the bank so when you bring you the world's worst move to take ground because of the prisoners there goes across europe voters are saying no to move measures portugal's prime minister has quit of the parliament voted down a fresh round of cuts because he has three months left to repay almost ten billion euros at a time when its sovereign credit rating has been caught. the only option left is

national default to tell lenders the country called pay back its loans or accept an e.u. bailout similar to greece and ireland it hasn't happened in the west in the second world war but the longer you postpone this necessary evil. the more costly it is is going to be at the same time military intervention in libya is costing hundreds of millions of euros many a few areas so what they see as an unnecessary and expensive campaign somebody asked the. the finance minister about the financing of this and i think the overwhelming sense that you got from it was among the public in britain with skepticism with millions unemployed across europe people losing patience with politicians who seem out of touch with reality increasingly familiar sights on the streets of the e.u. with government built tiny leaves growing numbers well to work the big question is

no good right time to spend the money available on news of the world don't you go sure to brussels. the british euro m.p. nine till farrar says people across the continent have every right to feel angry over cuts while their government squander money abroad. we've had british troops on the ground in afghanistan now for over ten years i don't think there's any appetite for us getting involved in foreign wars where we cannot directly see our own national interest being threatened and where frankly if we go in to support the rebels we don't even know who they are or what they stand for or what they want i don't think anybody has thought this through and if they are going to put ground troops in that i think they're going to find in all the member states involved in this a real strong level of opposition and when people see cuts in front line services for whatever reasons when people see their retirement age is going up when people see the taxes both direct and indirect they're paying going up they have

a right to question what on earth are we doing getting involved in an open ended commitment in terms of war with libya that could cost those goodness knows what else i do think that to a very close but i also feel as portugal is about to topple over as the next eurozone country really requiring a bailout that that is actually going to cost each british taxpayer about four hundred pounds and that actually the biggest effect on our pockets this week was the chance of this budget but it was the fact that the portuguese government fell and they're about to be bailed out so i think people have every reason to be pretty angry that they see their own costs at home going up their services being up money being thrown overseas in all sorts of projects that they wouldn't necessarily support. turning to developments now in japan where the spread of radiation from the fukushima nuclear facility is raising concern among those in the region high levels have been found in the sea nearby and they're increasing the government's

warning people to get out of the area marty's ivor bennett spoke to a man who knows firsthand what the consequences could be. this man has borne the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of nagasaki you're shiria milwaukee has had liver and kidney problems since he was thirty five and he's already beaten cancer twice every time he falls ill now he feels it could be his last battle your shooter watches events unfold at fukushima fearing the true nature of the disaster is yet to show itself so you are saying that the result of the contamination won't just end of the event it will be handed down from generation to generation i have four daughters the first to have leukemia another has breast cancer but the results of a disaster will be shown in generations to come. you should know was just eleven when the bomb was dropped he survived the blast but was exposed to lethal levels of

radiation on his two trips to the hypocenter first to find his father then to bury him despite everything he's pro nuclear power but still thinks fleeing from fukushima is the wise thing to do so then the i don't think the public or the government are overreacting in this situation i think people must take all precautionary measures they can to avoid the worst for the rest of the negative the stands today had to be built from scratch eleven square kilometers were jews to dust the cloud of its tragic past still hangs over the city its residents though know what it means to suffer and are willing to help those in need members of the international volunteer organization the lion's club here collecting for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami everyone's desperate to give with donations already ten times higher than normal. we have

a custom something happens in our nation we call it the nation that would help each other especially the people and i guess i very very sensitive to atomic power so we are very worried about what happened here and we want to help more than money every way it sounded like a sack it is a memorial to the seventy five thousand died when the atomic bomb was dropped here this one marks that exact moment now the city will forever serve as a reminder of the destructive potential of nuclear power and those here now praying that focus shima wherever in the same way now go psyche's transformation has been remarkable ground zero is unrecognizable the city would escape any radiation from a meltdown at fukushima but there is a nuclear plant close by and the incident has left residents living in fear. but nothing. people from nagasaki and hiroshima are very sensitive to the incident in fukushima we've never experienced such

a devastating nuclear accident before and i think everyone is now free this could happen again i wasn't afraid of nuclear accidents before but now i am because i can see it's not under control so this memorial represents the water crave by so many after the explosion the basins tranquility a far cry from the destruction wrought by the tsunami once that has done its damage this place reminds us the ripples from a radioactive disaster extend for generations are the bennetts r.t. and a sucky. nuclear historians say the damage to the site is extremely hazardous to health and the side effects will be felt for a long time. i think it's catastrophic i think that the narrative that we've had for the last week or so which is that we're trying to fix the problem and get it under control is misleading i think that there's evidence of radiation having entered the environment in large amounts it's turning up in lots of places in water

and food it's even being detected far away what this could mean is that there is really a significant entry of radiation going on into the environment right now and that there doesn't appear to be any and he's any halt to it in the near future so that's very catastrophic this is not something that is a situation that may get out of control this is a situation that is having a catastrophic impact currently already i would say in significantly dangerous there's been high levels of radiation detected out of the twenty kilometer limit already and what you have it when you have radiation levels of that of that level is that in a week or two you'll have people that are experiencing the radiation exposure of nuclear plant workers you know over the course of their career and these are people in a situation where there's been an earthquake there's been a tsunami there's a shortage of food there's a shortage of water so their health is already stressed their bodies are already stressed they may not be in heated homes at night they may not be getting

electricity so the impact of these exposures will be even larger. so they. do recede in the course of a week or two the exposures the nuclear plant workers receive in their entire lives is rather dire and these people should not be allowed to remain in such an exposure area. well the japanese government claims radiation levels are not harmful but companies are still taking precautions when it comes to their manufactured goods contamination has already been found in some food products spreading regulation where it's far beyond to parents source those are our list to explain since leaving people to think twice before buying. as japan works overtime to avert a nuclear meltdown is another crisis in the making maybe maybe think twice second thoughts born of paranoia that radioactive remnants may reach far beyond japan's borders how worried about the seafood may be the seafood is safe from the radiation

bomb in the water out what i'm going to be very wary of that for quite a while it's the fear of japanese imports going all the way to the top u.s. regulators have said they will increase screenings of food coming in from the embattled asian nation the european union has warned members to do the same and italy was the first e.u. nation to ban food imports from japan all together in the wake of the nuclear scare it's fueling suspicion that besides the quake the tsunami and the nuclear crisis japan will soon have to deal with another problem becoming a trade pariah more than likely will for reasons that may not be entirely radioactive countries all over the world in tough economic times and they still are looking for ways to subsidize their own producers their own workers and so an incident like the one unfolding in japan gives them quite a good reason to do something that they may have been looking to do anyway this is

bad for trade made worse for the country itself if made in japan comes to mean made a nuclear wasteland to consumers in countries like the u.s. we're here in times square and i wanted to come down here because it is where the rubber meets the road as far as advertising in this country and you can really see the brands to play a major role in the united states i wanted to see how many of them were. happening now take a look at this center post of advertising from top to bottom you can see sony c.d.k. toshiba all japanese corporations playing a major role in the u.s. i noticed even our camera and my my clip from my microphone are manufactured by sony and with the nuclear disaster there is no telling what the oil will be on but the manufacturing of companies like that but also their brand presence in countries like the u.s. and this data is of the made in japan label that would be concerned about like televisions components that might carry the radio active materials.

and japan's economy will feel it for a long time to trade suffers a major blow does this drag down an already near zero growth rate in japan if it does that it's going to have bigger effects internal to japan globally and we don't know exactly what those are but they're potentially quite significant significant because in a global economy which made in japan matters for everyone many of the world's cell phones laptops in cars rely on a poxy computer chips for auto parts from the country stoppages in manufacturing and trade consent shock waves through the system likely farther reaching than the radiation itself lauren mr r.t. new york. well stay with us online we're updating your around the clock on what's happening in japan right now and also what are to dot com you can trace back the events of the earthquake disaster unfolded we look into the radiation worries from the fukushima reactors as nuclear experts explain the danger levels to both health

and environment. also japan's economy has been crippled by the disaster and will take years to recover but big human cost of the tragedy is much harder to calculate we have survivor stories online at our dot com. some of the news making world headlines today for you now there have been reports of israeli airstrikes on gaza this morning which killed two palestinians and wounded another this comes after hamas said it would agree to a cease fire with israel if attacks on gaza stopped last week we saw some of the most serious violence in the palestinian territory which the group controls at least ten people including civilians and children were killed in last week's

attacks. a week of anti-government protest in a syrian border city has developed into may soon why don't grasp with tens of thousands marching across the country in the rest of the city to draw crowds call for president bashar al assad to go he faces the deepest crisis of his eleven years in power after security forces fired on protesters on friday killing at least twenty three activists the government blames gangs for the bloodshed and the simple deaths. yemen's embattled president is in talks with the opposition for a handover of power after weeks of protests ali abdullah saleh ventured the offer to quit later this year but grew. testers insist they wanted to go now it was all part of it after a rough fifty people were stopped dead after an anti-government protest last week senior military political figures have also abandoned. by up in just a few minutes

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